Disease guidelines based on numeric age will eventually become obsolete

Better guidelines consider physiologic age
Function
Cognition
Multimorbidity

And most importantly, What Matters to the patient

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A patient was sad today because they’re stuck in the hospital after a fall, was told to go to rehab, but had no way to look after their pet bird

The bird is the only thing living with them for the past 7 years

Pet is family
Health care is multifactorial
We can do better

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Do you have patients who didn’t pass swallow evaluation?

I did today

Until I called family
And retested when family was present

Patient passed in a single try with flying colors

Family is an *integral* part of the patient care team

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We *should* expect patients to pull out IVs&try to get out of bed

It's not normal to be tied to IVs
It's not normal to be in bed all day

Our job *is not* to stop patients from pulling lines/getting out of bed

Our job is to help patients get as close to *normal life* as possible

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A happy reminder that many hospitals in the world 🌟encourage🌟 patients to wear their own clothes, eat in the dining room with other patients, and exercise in group as part of physical therapy

Dignity
Independence
Community

It’s all possible

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RT @petrosoniak@twitter.com

Patients Prefer Boarding in Inpatient Hallways: Correlation with the National Emergency Department Overcrowding Score

#PatientCenteredDesign

Data to support this process. Interesting.

Ward hallway > ED

cc: @HumanFact0rz@twitter.com @davidcarr333@twitter.com @CatStepCatStep@twitter.com
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3253437/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/petrosoniak/status/1614081954005094403